This collection has access restrictions. For
details, please see the
restrictions.

This collection has use restrictions. For
details, please see the
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival
material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are
physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available
through the World Wide Web. See the
section for more information.

The
Southern Economic
Journal
, the journal of the Southern Economic Association, began publication in 1933 at
the University of Georgia and was produced from 1935 through 1997 by the Association
and the
University of North Carolina. The
Journal moved to the University
of Florida in fall 1997. The
Journal originally was intended to
examine economic issues peculiar to the American South. Over the years, its focus
shifted to
more general economic topics. Records deposited in 1997 cover the period during which
the
Southern Economic Journal was affiliated with the University of North
Carolina; the original accession begins in 1937 and ends with the Journal's move to
the
University of Florida in the fall of 1997. The collection has since expanded to include
records
through 2003. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with authors of
articles
submitted to the journal, but there are also records relating to the
Journal's financial and administrative operations, including correspondence, ledgers,
bank statements, and subscription information.

The files in Series 3 (Undecided
Article Issue Correspondence) and Series 4 (Rejected Article Issue Correspondence)
are closed
to research for a period of 70 years from the issue date as it appears on individual
folders.
The files in boxes 133-152 (Rejected Article Issue Correspondence and Returned Without
Review)
are closed to researchers until 1 January 2075.

Restrictions to Use

The files in Series 1-2 (Accepted Article Issue Correspondence) and the files in boxes
153-165 (additional Accepted Article Issue Correspondence) may be read for information
only.
Copying, citation, quotation, or publication of any material written by a living individual
is
prohibited without the written permisson of that individual.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as
stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Southern Economic Journal Records #4886, Southern
Historical
Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Received from Vincent J. Tarascio of Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 1997 (Acc. 97109)
and
October 2000 (Acc. 98764 and 98772). Additional materials received from Kathy J. Hayes
in July
2003 (Acc. 99579) and Jonathan Hamilton in August 2003 (Acc. 99773).

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State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
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responsibility.

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entire collection; the terms do
not usually represent
discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or
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The
Southern Economic Journal began as the publication of the
Southern Economic Association. The first issue was released in October
1933 under editor Malcolm H. Bryan from editorial offices at the University
of Georgia. Publication was soon suspended due to financial difficulties, but was
resumed with
the October 1935 issue after the Association entered into a joint publication agreement
with the
University of North Carolina. Beginning with the October 1997 issue, the
publication agreement with the University of North Carolina ceased. Jonathan
Hamilton of the University of Florida Graduate School of
Business became editor, taking over from Vincent Tarascio.

Although the
Journal originally was intended to examine
Southern economics, over the years its focus shifted from the American
South to more general economic topics. A significant
proportion of the authors published in the
Journal, roughly half,
are located in the South.

The records deposited in 1997 cover the period during which the
Southern Economic Journal was affiliated with the University of North Carolina; the
original accession begins in 1937 and ends with the
Journal's
move to the University of Florida in the fall of 1997. The collection has since grown
to include
records through 2003. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with authors
of
articles submitted to the journal, but there are also records concerning the
Southern Economic Journal's financial and administrative operations,
including correspondence, ledgers, bank statements, subscription information, and
other
materials.

Materials relating to accepted articles include letters, drafts of articles, and other
items.
These materials has been arranged in two series: in the first series, materials are
sometimes
filed by the month in which they were received and sometimes in the month of the article's
publication; materials in the second series are arranged entirely by the article's
month of
publication.

There are also materials relating to articles about which publication decisions had
not been
made by the time the
Journal moved to the University of Florida.
There is also material relating to articles that were rejected.

Administrative files include general correspondence, article submission log sheets,
records
relating to exchange advertising, records relating to specific vendors, and other
files.
Financial records include papers relating to the
Journal's
business affairs.

RESTRICTED: The files in Series 1 may be read for information only. Copying, citation,
quotation, or publication of any material written by a living individual is prohibited
without
the written permission of that individual.

Processing note: For more Accepted Article Issue Correspondence, see Additions of
July and
August 2003.

Series 1 is chiefly comprised of correspondence with authors whose articles on economics
were accepted for publication. The original arrangement of the records as received
has been
retained. Note that correspondence may be filed either in the month in which it was
received
or in the month of publication of the issue in which the article appeared. Correspondence
is
arranged alphabetically by the surname of the author. Other folders correspond to
sections of
the journal: Book Reviews, Books Received, Personnel Notes (also referred to as Notes),
Presidential Address, etc. Files marked "miscellaneous" usually contain, among other
items,
lists of authors and articles in the issue published in that particular month.